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Melt: Exchange Interesting Photos With Random People

azim — Mon, 20 May 2013 04:01:16 +0000

Melt is a free app for iOS that lets you have fun and meet people by exchanging your most interesting photos from your iPhone. It is built on a very simple concept – you send an interesting photo to the world and get one back in return. The more photos you send, the more you receive. [...]

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Coffee: Open Files With Your Portable Applications Instead Of Default Associated Programs

azim — Mon, 20 May 2013 02:01:44 +0000

Portable applications are programs that you can carry on a removable drive and run them from any computer. They are handy in situations when some of the apps you use are not available on the host computer and you don’t have time to download and install the required application from scratch. In this case you [...]

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Show Password On Focus: Displays The Password From The Form

azim — Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:20 +0000

There was a time when you had to endure a long registration form to sign up for and start using an Internet service (email, forum etc). Some sign up forms required you to fill up to 50 empty fields. Then, registration forms became much shorter and now most services require only a combination of a [...]

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Surveymoz: Easily Create & Share Free Surveys

azim — Sun, 19 May 2013 22:01:29 +0000

Conducting an online survey is an effective way to do a quick market research or get feedback on your product or service. There are many free web-based online survey tools out there. One such tool is Surveymoz. It lets you easily create surveys online and track results. It is easy to use and requires no [...]

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MacUtil: Easily Customize Mac OS X Features From a Simple Menu [Mac OS X]

azim — Sun, 19 May 2013 20:01:15 +0000

If you want to customize the inner workings of your Mac OS X you have to use the terminal commands or download some third party software. If you want a simpler way to do it, check out MacUtil. It is a handy tool that makes it easy to customize your Mac from a simple menu. [...]

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PopSend: Share Files From Your iPhone

Joshua Lockhart — Sun, 19 May 2013 18:01:35 +0000

Transferring files between your phone and your computer can be done in a variety of ways. Some people use Dropbox, and some even use Bump. However, both services come with their own sets of hassles. For instance, Dropbox requires the installation of its desktop app for a truly fluid experience, and Bump requires users to [...]

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Vobok: Share Audio Messages With Your Friends

Joshua Lockhart — Sun, 19 May 2013 04:01:25 +0000

Social media is all about getting your personal message out to the world, and so far there’s already quite a few routes for people to choose from. Facebook and Twitter are perfect for rapidly posting text, and YouTube and Vine are great for quickly broadcasting video. However, there’s nothing really out there for audio. Sure, you could post [...]

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FooTab for Chrome: Speed Up Chrome’s Startup By Blocking Background Tabs

Tim Brookes — Sun, 19 May 2013 02:01:40 +0000

If you’re a user of Google Chrome or Chromium browsers and you’re a bit of a tab addict (you can’t even read the website titles) then you’ll be aware of the mess that’s created when you start up such a full and busy browser from cold. While everything tries to load at once Chrome can often [...]

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Text & File Hider Plus for Android: Hide SMS, Contacts, Files & Logs

Tim Brookes — Sun, 19 May 2013 00:01:47 +0000

Smartphone privacy is of little concern to many of us – after all, who else is going to be using our personal devices beside us? What have we got to hide from ourselves? While this is true, there’s always the possibility of a snooper or thief gaining access to your phone, and in this instance [...]

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Listacular for iPhone: Create Lists, Reminders & To-Dos That Sync Via Dropbox

Tim Brookes — Sat, 18 May 2013 22:01:32 +0000

Users are absolutely spoiled for choice when it comes to apps for taking notes and remembering things. We now need reminder apps to keep a track of our reminder apps, and here’s another called Listacular. Rather than having you sign up to yet another service which requires an individual client for each device you intend [...]

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Facebook Photo Appraiser: Find Similar Images To Your Friends’ Facebook Photos

Joshua Lockhart — Sat, 18 May 2013 20:01:02 +0000

Do you have friends who are really interested in photography? Have you ever had a friend post a landscape photo that just looked cool? Maybe you wanted to use their image for a graphic or a blog post, but it was a little too awkward to ask them if you could use it. Perhaps they [...]

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File Lock: Browser-Based Encryption Software, Sans Plugins

Justin Pot — Sat, 18 May 2013 18:01:33 +0000

Encrypt any file using only your web browser. File Lock is an HTML5 tool for encrypting any file on your computer, without the need for Java or other plugins. Even better: the encryption happens entirely on your computer, meaning your data is not at risk during transfer (it isn’t transferred). Using HTLM5 to read your [...]

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CryptureIt: A Free Web App To Encrypt Text Within Images

Umar — Sat, 18 May 2013 04:01:34 +0000

There are numerous ways to encrypt your text using various kinds of keys. But almost always, these tools generate an encrypted text that a viewer can quickly determine the nature of – encryption. If you really want to hide the fact that you have encrypted anything, you should perhaps go for a very effective technique [...]

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Keeb: Store & Share The Favorite Piece Of Webpages You Like

Umar — Sat, 18 May 2013 02:01:27 +0000

Are you trying to save a specific part of a webpage in your collection? Do you want to highlight what is most interesting to you while bookmarking a page? If yes, then you really cannot use the features the come built into your browser. The only feature you get there is standard webpage bookmarking that [...]

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Wakelock Detector: Find Out Which Apps Drain Your Battery Due To Wakelock Feature [Android]

azim — Sat, 18 May 2013 00:01:00 +0000

On Android, the apps use the feature called “wakelock” to keep your smartphone running even after you turned it off. This feature is used by the apps to complete an operation (e.g. getting updates from the Internet) even if you decide to turn off your phone. So if you ever wondered why your screen doesn’t [...]

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FontPro: Find & Download Lots Of Free Fonts

Dave LeClair — Fri, 17 May 2013 22:01:23 +0000

Do you work in design, or any field where you need to download fonts for use on your project? If so, you know that finding top quality fonts is often easier said than done. Plenty of websites offer free fonts, but many of them are filled with ads, and a lot of the fonts are [...]

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SkyPath: Sync Pictures From iPhone To Desktop Via ImageShack [iOS]

azim — Fri, 17 May 2013 20:01:45 +0000

If you have an iPhone it is very easy and convenient to take photos with it on the go. However, syncing your photos manually to your desktop is not as easy. Apple introduced iCloud as a native way to store and back up your data in the cloud. However, if you don’t like iCloud for [...]

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BirdDrop: Use Twitter’s Mobile Version From The Mac Menu Bar

Justin Pot — Fri, 17 May 2013 18:01:29 +0000

Add the mobile version of Twitter to your Mac’s menu bar. BirdDrop is a Mac app that makes browsing your tweets on your Mac simple – and does so in a familiar way. It’s simple, sure, but for some it just might be the best Twitter experience offered for the Mac. OS X used to [...]

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GistBox: An Web App To Organize Code Snippets

MOin — Fri, 17 May 2013 04:01:41 +0000

If you are a web developer or any kind of computer programmer, there must be code snippets that you find yourself using frequently. Even when you change your machine and are using somebody else’s computer to program, you still require these code snippets to work effectively and efficiently. While you can easily carry these code [...]

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Elevatr: Create, Store & Define In Detail Your Business Ideas On Your iPhone

moin — Fri, 17 May 2013 02:01:28 +0000

Business ideas need to be clearly defined from the get go otherwise missing details can greatly cost that business in the future. Here to help you clearly define your ideas is an app called Elevatr. Elevatr is a free to use smart device application compatible with iOS devices. The app comes sized at nearly 6.5 [...]

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